Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-02
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

Sarah Bernhardt fondles tige:-cat
Forty-tive Iowa towns have water
works.
There are over fifty men in Berlinwho
are over 20 years ofage.
During the last week 4O5, sos stan
dard silver dollars were issued from the
minis.
w. ". Stewart has been appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Second Iowa District.
The Treasury Department has refused
the free entry at San Francisco of a
dragon representing a Chinese god or
joss. :
Lulu Williams, child of IL years,
is an applicant for divorce in an Omaha
court on the ground of cruelty and
failure to support.
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing United States District ATTORNEYS:
George E. Prichett for Nebraska and
Emery B. Sellers for Iowa.
This is PATHS last farewell tour,
but if we all club together and ask
him, possibly Nicolini will come over
and see us again. Puck.
The Rev. John White, a colored
preacher of Arkansas, who will be 1O2
years old in July, has been married to
Miss Edie Smith, a maiden ofs65 sum-
mers.
The Rev. M. T. Lamb of Salt Lake,
in a lecture upon the fallacies of the
Mormon faith, shows that large sec
tons OF their Bible were stolen bodily
from Shakespeare.
A few days ago the funeral of a
professor of a university in St. Peters
burg was made the occasion of a de-
monstration of devotion to the Gear.
Justin Mccarthy says a recent
lunch given in Boston was
the best he ever had. This is an
important boom for the baked bean.
1t is expected that the French
Government will dissolve the Municipal
Council of Marseilles because that BODY
has manifested approval of the Paris
Commune.
A Milwaukee milkman has Just been
lined $40 and costs for adulteratlng his
milk. The fact that he was detected in
doing SO shows conclusively that he was
a new hand at the business.
Archbishop Lynch of Toronto has
sent an open letter to Lord Randolph
Churchill, in which he begs him to Join
with Gladstone, justice to Ireland to
form the basis of the proposed coalition.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington
philanthropist, is failing rapidly, and
appears twenty years older than he was
a year ago. He is in his seth year. and
it is feared that his days are nearly num-
bered.
Olive Logan, who has been irving to
make her home in Washington, has
concluded to return to London and
Paris. She has lived so long abroad
that she finds the fairest cities of the
Republic dull, uncongenial and un-
esthetic.
DR.. Edward Aveling has written a
letter to the Boston Socialists in which
he attempts to explain his extravaganza
while in this country. The explanation
IS considered extremely lame by the
Boston theorizers.
New York dry goods merchants, at a
meeting last week passed resoluti ons
that the new classification to 90 into
effect April l on the trunk lines would
increase the cost of freight so per cent
on very important lines of low-priced
domestic fabrics.
Prince Napoleon has begun, in
Switzerland, work OH Napoleon L.,
with the object of refuting Taine's book
on the same subject. The Prince has
called two noted Bonapartists to Paris
to assist him in compiling and arrang-
ing documents.
A household journal which sings
'shome hints' around promiscuouslv
says that ''the yellow tint of flannel
will disappear if it is left out doors on
cold night Perhaps so. In some
localities the flannel will also disap-
pear.-No7ristoU, Herald.
John Bright, IN letter on home
rule, says that majority of the people
in Ireland would vote their country be
made State of the American Union if
their present leaders instructed them
to DO so, but that would be no reason
why the Kingdom should consent.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
decided to consider a mction intro
duced by M. Blandin requesting the
Government to demand from ENGLAND
a statement as to the manner in which
the fund of G65,00O in rentes paid
under the convention of 1915 had been
used. The fund now amounts to f4O
600 sterling.
Mgr. Galimberti, the special delegate
sent by the Vatican to convey its con-
CALCULATIONS to the Emperor William
on the attainment of his goth wear
telegraphs from Berlin thathe was yerv
favorably received; that he had an
audience with the Emperor in order to
personally present to him the autograph.
Sir Henry Hawkins is getting a
reputation in England as witty Judge.
Recently a prisoner pleaded guilty of
larceny and then withdrew the plea
and declared himself to be innocent.
The case was tried and the Jury
acquitted him. Then said Sir Henry
Hawkins: 'sPrisoner, a few minutes
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